Frequently asked questions.

VD Innovatium is a digital agency based in Lyon, at 88 rue des Docks in the 9th arrondissement (Docks district). We work mainly in Lyon and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and also support clients across France.

The agency was founded in 2024 by Vincent Maugars, who leads strategy and projects, and Dorian Szenberg, who heads the technical side. You work directly with the founders, with no sales intermediary.

We support a wide range of organizations: early-stage startups, growing SMEs, mid-caps and large accounts. Our approach adapts to the digital maturity and constraints of each organization.

Yes. We are rooted in Lyon but work remotely with clients across France. We meet over video calls and travel for key project milestones when it helps.

We design and build digital solutions: websites, e-commerce, mobile apps and business tools. And we step in at every point of a project: decision support and technical audit, scoping and project ownership support, UX/UI design, delivery, integration and interconnection of tools, maintenance and evolution. You can come in through any door — a targeted engagement is perfectly legitimate.

We work mainly with the modern JavaScript ecosystem (Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js) and with PHP/Symfony for robust back-ends, along with WordPress and WooCommerce for e-commerce. We host in France, at Gandi, on open-source Linux VPS — a choice that lets us keep costs down and your data in France. We always choose the stack suited to the project's lifespan rather than the trend of the moment.

Yes. We design and rebuild online stores (WooCommerce or custom solutions), with payment integration (Stripe), conversion-funnel optimization and migration from an existing platform when needed.

Yes, SEO is built in from the design stage: technical structure, performance, structured data (Schema.org), semantic markup, hreflang for multilingual sites and optimization for generative engines (GEO). We also offer editorial support and ranking monitoring.

Yes. Technical takeover is part of our offering: we audit the existing site, identify technical debt and risks, then open a path toward rationalization or progressive redesign. We also maintain platforms we didn't build.

Yes: corrective and evolutionary maintenance, performance monitoring, security and long-term support. For us, a project is a step in a trajectory, not a parenthesis: what goes live becomes the starting point for what comes next.

The budget depends entirely on the scope and type of project. It starts from very small budgets — around €5,000 — and can grow significantly depending on complexity (business platform, advanced e-commerce, custom application). We provide a precise quote after a free first call.

Timelines depend on scope, from a few weeks for a showcase website to a few months for a redesign or a business platform. We work with a collective of freelancers that lets us ensure fast delivery — and in case of urgency, we can mobilize more talent to speed things up.

A freelancer brings one skill; we carry a project end to end. With VD Innovatium you have a single point of contact: behind the scenes we orchestrate a collective of talent (strategy, design, development) to deliver fast and well. You never juggle multiple providers — coordination is our job, not yours.

We apply the relief rule: we never treat a project as flat. Before stepping in, we look at what it touches around it — uses, teams, data, tools, constraints — and what it sets up for the future. The C³ method then structures the answer around three questions: what do we conserve because it works, what do we connect because it must work together, what do we construct because it's genuinely missing. We lay out the options and their consequences; the decision remains yours.

You have a single point of contact: VD Innovatium. Behind the scenes, we mobilize a carefully selected collective of freelance talent that we steer and coordinate end to end. For you it's completely seamless: you never manage the collective, you only deal with us. That's what lets us put the right talent on every need and deliver faster.

You can email us at contact@vd-innovatium.com, call us at +33 6 77 81 05 94, or use the form on the contact page. We offer a free 30-minute first call to understand your needs.